Breast Lantern #1

Breast Lantern
4×4″

RAKU;I pluck a red hot lantern from an outdoor kiln, place her into a container of dried leaves and shredded paper. Flames leap and dance. I then cover the container, smothering the flames; fire and smoke are the final artists and no two lanterns are the same.

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Breast Lantern # 2

Clay Raku
3.5×5.5″

Raku; a red hot lantern is plucked from an outdoor gas kiln, placed into a container of dried leaves and paper. Flames explode, then I place a lid on the container, smothering the flames. In Raku, fire and smoke are the final artists; the results are never the same. I call her Perky; really, every breast is unique.

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Breast Lantern #3

4.5 x 4.5″

I dunked this one in Flour and Water and Yeast: really! The Obvara technique, which originated in Eastern Europe around the 12th Century, involves scalding the finish on the pottery to seal the porous surface. Similar to the raku process, a bisqued pot is heated, in this case to 1650°F (899°C) and removed from the heat. The difference is that the pot is then dipped into a specific Obvara yeast mixture before being dunked in water to rapidly cool the piece. The effects are quite stunning

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Breast Lantern #4

4.5 x 4.5″
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I placed this breast in a barrel containing sawdust, banana peels, copper wire, coffee grounds. I lit the sawdust, waiting for a good flame, then covered the barrel with metal. The sawdust smoked until the next day when I plucked the lantern from the ashes, bathed her in water and scrubbed her clean.

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Breast Lantern #5

4.5 x 4.5″

This one was heated to red hot then lightly smoked in a barrel. Perhaps I like this one because I “used to be” a redhead. Actually, once a redhead always a redhead, even when the hair colour changes with time.

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